Meanings of sentinel duty in English

He could nap a bit before he woke to his silent sentinel duty.

Marius waited all day, then went and did sentinel duty under their windows.

No policeman passed, regarding him with suspicion, and Mailing went on sentinel duty.

One night I was doing sentinel duty at the entrance to the Soldiers' Home.

And now they shoot him because he was found asleep when doing sentinel duty.

We ate our dinner in squads, one squad eating while the other did sentinel duty.

I take it you are on sentinel duty, Mr.

Allemand and Godefroy kept sentinel duty at the gates.

Accordingly, while in barracks, Jan was kept pretty closely to sentinel duty in Paddy's stall.

Very well, you shall do sentinel duty-andall night.

One old soldier with tears in his dim eyes came to say, I've done sentinel duty in my time.

He was doing sentinel duty for-forthe British, and he received a terrible blow from some one in a cave.

It seemed to Derek that he had been patrolling the platform for a life-time, but he resumed his sentinel duty.

Then, when some one asked why neither Jacob nor I had been assigned to sentinel duty, Sergeant Corney replied, gravely:

Take the gloom, his attitude, and his sooty garb, and he gave a very picturesque impression of a raven doing sentinel duty.

He is the self-appointed guardian of all the other animals, and for some strange, unselfish reason, he always does sentinel duty for the others.